The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-25
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

| THE grave of Ben amin Franklin, in Philadel-
| phia, is in much neglected condition.
| king HUMBERT, of Italy ia only forty
years old. yet his hair, long since gray, is now
| nearly white.
| DIR. McGLYNN is troubled with the big
| head" His measures twenty-three and a half
| inches in circumference
| HENRY Willard is an accomplished must
clan, and often spends his evenings in playing
violin to his daughters pianoforte accompani-
| ments.
NJ. DIBLER, the public executioner of Paris, is
| very fond of birds and music He has n large
and wellstocked aviary, and is q capital per-
| former on the violin.
ONE of the most successful temperance work
ers beyond the Mississippi is Miss Laura Wink
| ler She was born blind. but her zeal is not i'm
| paired by her affection.
LITTLE DEvEREux BLAKE's daughter, pref
| ty young woman in her tweuties, is in training
to take her mothers place as reformer after
the latter wearies or dies.
! FIVE days before his death. Ex-Governor Luke
| P Blackburn. of Kentucky, said: II will die
on the 14th of September at 2:30 p. NJ" His
| predictions were verified almost to the minute.
| "MEN to kiss among themselves,
| And scarce win kiss brother;
Women to kiss so bad
| They smack and kiss each other"
Macon Telegraph.
| SoMERvILLE Journal: The average woman
|
| her crimps than she does about the condition
/ of her soul. and the average wouldn't
| like her half so we'll if she didn't
| THERE are three wet counties in Georgiad
| They named after Georga's three signers of
the Declaration of Independence. Hall. Walton
| and Gwinnett. Somebody says that it is the
| split OF '76 that keeps these counties wet"
Mrs. OLE BULL denies the rumor that she is
| to be married the coming season. She has taken
| house in Boston and proposes to live quietly
| for some years to come She has not as yet
| thought of casting aside her widows weeds.
| CHANCELLOR SIMS, of Syracuse University.
| expects to have the new library building there
| finished within a year and ready to receive the
| Won Ranke library It will be entirely fire.
proof and contain room for $780, 900 volumes.
| A LITTLE eight ear-o old girl in Troy, NO., has
| grey hair which is turning white all the time.
1t used to be raven black. but began turning
grey after a terrible fright she had at fire three
years ago. She is the most misunderstanding
| younRster on record.
MRS SHERIDAN was regarded as one of the
| handsomest women seen at the Philadelphia
| celebration. Her eyes are large. brown and
/ Seautful, and she has special fancy for brown
| costumes which admirable match for
| those attractive eyes.
| ONE of the striking figures at the Philadelphia
| celebr alton was that OF the hero of the last
| Apache campaign. Henry W. Lawton, of the
| Fourth cavalry. the captor of Geronimo. is u
| rare executive ability.
| KING KALAKAUA. OF the Sandwich Islands,
has invited the yachtsmen of San Francisco to
| come and help him celebrate his fiftieth birth
| day, Nov. 16 1t has been delicately init
mated the jolly tars that the occasion will not
| be one to which q prohibitions could point with
| pride.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY, author of the once
| popular "Festus," which now lives chiefly in a
single quotation of half dozen lines is still
vigorous and active man, though he was born
| q year before Waterloo His poem has passed
| through thirty editions in America. He
| born in Nottingham.
| CHRISTINE NILssoNs husband Senior de Casa
Miranda is short and stout. and ha. round. dark
| eyes and a queer smile. He has intelligence and
| charming manners They are living handsomely
| in London, whore the Countess gives many
| pleasant entertainments. She dresses carelessly
now and in bad taste
| AMONG the Romans, if man kissed his be-
trothed. she gained thereby the half of his effects
| in the event of his dying before the celebration
of their marriage if the lady herself died under
the same circumstances. her heirs or nearest of
kin took the half due her. A kiss was regarded
very seriously by the ancient Romans.
REV. JOSEPH PARKER prefers to preach from
O pulpit rather than from platform. On q
platform he says a mans legs painfully
spicuous. and his boots have a mean look
How" he asks, ''can man do retail trade
without a counterg" By pulpit he means little
wooden structures, shaped like a wine-glass"
THE elephant lives 100 years and upwards;
rhinoceros. 20; camel, 100; lion, % to 20; tiger,
leopard, jaguar and hyena lin confinement).
about 25 beaver, so: deer. 20; wolf, 90 fox IA to
l6; llama 10; chamois 25; monkey and baboon,
l6 to Is; hare. 8; squirrel, Z rabbit. z swine %;
stag under 80; horse, 80; ass 3d. sheep, under 10.
THAT was a neat compliment that a French
wit paid to an enemy who had come and scrib-
bled .Coeuin" (blackguard) upon his door one
| night with piece Of chalk. Next morning the
wit went to the fellows house and said, in the
politest way possible: Monsieur you left your
name at my door last night, and 1 have come to
return the visit
MRS LOGAN has almost entirely recovered
from the painful accident she recently sustained.
She hopes complete arrangements soon for
the removal of her husbands remains to Chi
caeo. The vault in which they are now resting
in Rock-creek Church Cemetery is still guarded
by detail of United States soldiers night and
day.
A CLIFF-sTREET man has q cocker spaniel that
will not eat breakfast until his face is washed.
The dog spent his puppyhood in family with
children, and took his turn with them at the
morning wash. IL his toilet is neglected he
doesn't weep. but sits right down and bowls, and
there is peace until his eyes are clear and his
head combed.-Norwch Bulletin.
BILL NYE: The coarse. revolving stuff that is
fed 20 an average wastepaper basket in twenty
four hurs would fill the average man with loath-
ing Some day the high bro we poet of the fu-
ture will toss back his dark and fluent hair,
twang his Tyre few times and write poem en-
titled 1.-The Vail of the Waste Paper Basket"
and it will make Dante's Inferno" look like a
lawn sociable.
1T is said Mrs. Mackay is about to display
gorgeous toilet-piece in the shape Of cloak
made entirely out of the feathers of paradise
birds The price Of a single bird is about 40
francs and 500 birds would be necessary to form
this strange garment, which, whom finished by
the dress maker will cost over 5000 francs.
to collect the birds.
Four young ladies in Lake City. Fla, last
week carried that town for the Prohibitionists.
The champion of the saloon men was young
lawyer well known q social loader. Bri eht
and early on election morn the young ladies